3 Things You Don't Need Robert Gates's Book to Know...

3 Things You Don't Need Robert Gates's Book to Know 01/09/2014 Excerpts from a new tell-all book made quite a splash in Washington yesterday. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates apparently blasts President Obama on foreign policy and the U.S. military in his upcoming book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. But as Heritage’s James Jay Carafano said, "You don’t need a book from the former Secretary of Defense to know that many of the decisions Obama made during Gates's watch were a disaster." Gates started as Secretary of Defense during President George W. Bush’s second term, and Obama asked him to stay on during his first term. The revelations from Gates’s book come as no surprise to Heritage experts, who have been warning that Obama has made decisions based on his personal preference for domestic policy—at the expense of America’s standing in the world and our men and women in uniform. Here are three things you don’t need to read the book to know. >>> Click here to find out.  Quick Hits: It’s coming: Here’s what to expect from the trillion-dollar “omnibus” spending bill that could show up any day. Did you know about this marriage debate happening in Hawaii? The White House is reeling from Robert Gates’s new book. The Administration is funding Obamacare TV ads that will air during the Winter Olympics in February. Print  |  Comments  |  Forward  |  Donate